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character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
composure concentration defenders forward game good looking maintain mount offensive order playoff stop throughout
We are looking forward to the playoff game with Mount Pleasant. They are a good offensive team. Our defenders must maintain concentration and composure throughout the game in order to stop their attacks. Andre Lo
composure early good kept reduce thinking tried
We still kept our composure and we just tried to reduce our thinking early in the game. Initially, we just wanted to get one good series. Then it was just one good play.
composure finished positive
We buckled down and got through it. Anthony regained his composure and we finished on a positive note.
composure finished game great kept knew run
We knew they were going to make a run but we kept our composure and finished off the game. It was a great game out there. Carmelo Anthony
composure couple lost played
She played real well. She could have lost her composure a couple of times, but she battled back and played through it.
composure great held job
She held her composure out there and she got out of it. (Selden) did a great job for us out there today. Sue Enquist
composure game knew situations
We've been in situations like that before. We knew we had to keep our composure and not let the game get out of control.
composure five jump last second settled shots
We settled for jump shots in the second half. We didn't play with the same composure the last five minutes.
composure game great lost
We did something we didn't do all year, we lost our composure in the end. Usually we're the ones at the end of the game that keep our cool, but Harlingen did a great job.
games two lawyer
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.
games words-of-wisdom delight
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
games planning designer
I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. Charles Stross
games play self
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. Alan Watts
games fire giving
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.
games boards vendetta
They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away. Alan Moore
games goal able
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals. Alan Green
games gambling casinos
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. Al Alvarez
games gambling cards
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
halftime hard played struggled
We struggled a little and they made it very hard to penetrate the middle. We made some adjustments at halftime and played better.
halftime points
To go from 16 points at halftime to 50 at the end was because of our defense.
halftime home numbers ready teammates ticket
One of my teammates joked with me at halftime (of the first game) that I better put up some numbers or my ticket home would be booked. Let's just say I'm not ready to go home yet.
halftime orange worried
I don't know. We could take a halftime and do the orange slices and all that kind of stuff. I'm not worried about it. Matt Hasselbeck
halftime sports tv
Halftime Highlights. It was a milestone in TV sports coverage. Jim McKay
halftime opening score talked team
We talked at halftime about being the first team on opening day to score on a kickoff and punt return.
halftime holding lead
Holding them to a 7-0 halftime lead was huge. But we just couldn't get anything going offensively.
halftime picked team
We made some adjustments at halftime and our team really picked up the intensity.
halftime harder night thursday tonight
I got on them a little harder during halftime tonight than on Thursday night. I told them that it was their championship to win.
hoped republican shut
What the Republican establishment hoped would be a runaway did not happen, ... They wanted to shut down the race. Steve Forbes
hoped
What he can do is something we really need. Now that he's healthy, we're getting what we hoped to be getting all season.
hoped large traders
Short-term traders are disappointed after they'd hoped for a large upward revision.
hoped maybe shut
We really hoped we ... could keep (Mattox) from getting 30 or 40 on us, honestly, and maybe try to shut down some of their other players.
hoped less overall result
The overall result is less than we hoped but more than we expected. Jack Straw
hoped rival russell
Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11. Loretta Lynch
hoped jesus needs people serve truly
Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one. Greg Boyle
hoped today
Today we got everything we could have hoped for.
hoped returns seeing
We're not seeing the returns that we had hoped to.
talked
What they talked about were the qualifications for manslaughter,
talked
She talked more around him, responded more to him.
talked
Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too. Tony Gwynn
talked
Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults. Nancy Gibbs
talked thinking
When you started thinking your going to make a mistake, you've talked yourself into making it.
talked until
No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in. Lindy Ruff
talked truth
To tell you the truth, I don't like talking too much once I leave this booth. I'm talked out. Lynn Samuels
talked tweet
The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded. Khloe Kardashian
talked unusually
My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way. Richard Flanagan